I was brought up in Christian Science and attended a Christian Science Sunday School. In my teen years, however, I fell away from its teachings and practice.
During my service in the armed forces, I turned to God for help in periods of stress or confusion, but when my life seemed to be going well, God was forgotten.
Shortly after my discharge from the Army, in seeking a return to the job I'd held before being inducted, I found that there were no openings because of layoffs which predated my seniority. So I registered with the state unemployment office and also began answering advertisements for positions. One of the requirements for obtaining state unemployment help in securing a job was to contact the office at specified intervals. If contact wasn't made within a designated period, the unemployment office assumed the applicant had found work.
